In April, Biological E got the CDSCO’s nod to conduct phase 3 clinical trials on its Covid vaccine candidate, developed in association with Baylor College of Medicine, US.
The reports had alleged that Union Government had promised 120 million vaccine doses for June, while administered only around 58 million doses out of 79 million available in May.
The PIL says if children are not protected against the virus with vaccination, it will put the future generation of this country in an extremely vulnerable state.
Hotels like Radisson Hotel in Hyderabad and The Lalit in Mumbai are offering these Covid vaccine packages priced at more than Rs 3,000. Social media users have criticised the move.
DNA vaccines can be produced more quickly, at a lower cost and do not require cold temperatures for transportation. But no such vaccine has been approved for human use yet.
Pfizer says it is encouraged by both the real-world data and laboratory studies of the vaccine & sees no evidence that 'virus or circulating variants of concern regularly escape protection'.
Decentralisation of health services, price cap on medical supplies are among the recommendations made by Lancet Citizens Commission on Reimagining India's Health System.
SII has a tie-up with US' Novavax to manufacture and supply Covovax vaccine in India and in low- and middle-income countries as part of the COVAX vaccine alliance countries.
The Modi govt first put all its eggs into the US basket when the unipolar moment was clearly over. It subsequently overcorrected, accommodating an aggressive China.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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